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A Georgetown Student Defends the Reparations Referendum

“I have no interest in seeing Georgetown front the money promised by this referendum, because I have no interest in seeing Georgetown co-opt this referendum as its own contribution.”
Source: Jacquelyn Martin / AP

The First Reparations Attempt at an American College Comes From Its Students

Earlier this month, Georgetown University undergraduates voted overwhelmingly to tax themselves $27.20 per semester to create a fund that will support the descendants of the enslaved people from whom the university profited. The fact that students may be ahead of the school in paying reparations,, is evidence of just how little the university has done to make amends for its misdeeds.

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